Histoire Generale Des Plantes Contenant Xviii Livres Egalement Departis En Deux Tomes Tiree De

by Jacques Dalechamps

$4,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt, all edges red A fine copy of this monumental work compiled by a pupil of Rondelet and originally published in Latin in 1586-87. This edition is the most complete one in the French language, a vast illustrated synthesis of Renaissance botanical, medical, and philological knowledge. First published in Latin, Dalechamps' Historia generalis plantarum gathered the botanical knowledge of classical, Arabic, medieval, and Renaissance

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